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2018 New Year's Resolutions / Goals

Randon

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1/5/12/100 (sub goals)
2x2:
2/3.5/4/4.5
3x3: 8/11/13/14
4x4: 40/45/50/55
5x5: 1:50/1:55/2/meh
Square-1: 15/20/25/30
Skewb: 3/6/7/8
Pyraminx: 1/2.5/3/4
OH: 20/30/35/meh
 

asacuber

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Time for a new beginning, have failed goals for last 2 years so...

2x2: Sub 2, Top 20 official
3x3: Sub 10, global and official
4x4: Sub 50, g & o
5x5: 1:40 g&o
6x6: sub 4
7x7: sub 7
OH: sub 18
pyr: don't care much but 4.5ish
skewb: sub 4, g&o
FMC: sub 35
squan: get one(mine broke and is crappy), sub 20
3x3 feet: 1:20 consistent
mega: idrc, 1:40

Pick up some blind around the way
top 500 kinch
go to 4 comps, try for one mumbai comp(will probably happen, Udaan Open 2018 is in Jan)
balance cubing chess and studies more properly
Try and get a few more cubes

My goals aren't far fetched at all(or so I think).
 

Aerospry

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Cube Specific Goals:

-2x2: Sub 4.5 (from 6), Learn how to predict OLL from inspection
-3x3: Sub 12 (from 16.5), Learn full OLL, Learn some F2L algs, 50% X Cross
-4x4: Sub 1:00 (from 1:20), Better first 3 Edges, Improve 3-2-3 edge pairing
-5x5: Sub 2:00 (from 2:50), Center tricks, L2C algs
-6x6: Sub 4:00 (from 6:00)
-7x7: Sub 6:30 (from 1:00)
-3x3 OH: Sub 24 (from 33), Full OH PLL
-3BLD: Sub 3 (from 7:30)
FMC: Sub 35 (from 44), ~32 single
-Square 1: Sub 5 Cubeshape, Sub 30 (from 45), Full EO, CP, EP
-Pyraminx: sub 6 (from 8.5), Learn Intuitive L4E
-Megaminx: Sub 2 (from 3:30), Learn something besides beginners last layer
-Skewb: Sub 10 (from 15), Learn hedgeslammer, learn more algs

Other:
-Learn 4BLD
-Learn 100+ digits of π
-Focus while practicing
-Put homework before cubing
 
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João Santos

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2x2: Learn CLL and get sub 4 global and a sub 3.75 official average
3x3: get sub 13 to be atleast in top 100 NR
4x4: sub 48-50 official avg
5x5: sub 1:25-1:30 official avg
6x6: sub 3 official, finals at brasileiro
7x7: sub 4:40 official, finals at brasileiro
Oh: sub 23 and try to get at least one podium, not sad if it doesn't happens
Pyra: sub 5 official avg
Mega: stop using layers and get 1:25-1:30 official avg
Skewb: sub 4 official, podium at brasileiro again
Squan: sub 25 officially, finals at brasileiro
Clock: sub 20 official average
Bld: learn
Wf: sub 2
 

pglewis

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This year it was to learn 3bld and make an official attempt, made it with 15 seconds to spare :D For 2018:

mbld: Be prepared to make a legit, official 6 cube attempt by the end of the year. I have a long way to go.

3x3: My goals are usually either short term (get at least one PB at my next comp) or nebulously longer-term (get sub-10 "some day"). But I think I could be flirting with the potential for an official sub 20 average by the end of next year, given my current progress.
 

MattP98

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Goals this year are really to learn bigBLD and practise as many events to make as many qualifications as I can, before Euros would be nice. =) Goals for then really:
3x3: Comfortably sub 15
4x4: Sub 1:00
5x5: Sub 2:00
6x6/7x7: Sub 4:00 and sub 6:00 respectively, maybe..
BLD: Sub 3 with an improved success rate, also want to get more into MBLD to beat 2/2
OH: Sub 30
Clock: Sub 15
Mega: Sub 2:00 by UKC
Pyra/Skewb: Sub 6
Sq-1: Low/sub 20
Would really like to aim for bronze member this year too, we'll see.
 

weatherman223

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Alright, here are mine, most are just to qualify for nats.

3x3 (Qualified) Get sub 17 by nats, sub 14 by end of the year. Current: sub 20?
2x2: (Qualified) Get sub 4 by nats, 3.5 by end of the year Current: Sub 6-5.5
4x4: Get sub 1:10 by nats, sub 55? by end of year Current: Sub 1:20
5x5: Get sub 1:50 by nats, same goal by end of year. Current: Sub 4-3:50
6x6: Get sub 3:30 by nats, same goal by end of the year. Current: Sub 9 mins.
7x7: Get a 7x7 and average sub 4:45 by end of year.
Blind: Success by April and get sub 4 by nats, sub 3 by end of the year. Current: 22 min DNF
OH: Sub 35 by nats, sub 30-27 by end of year. Current: Sub 45
FMC: I dont really care about FMC, but I would like to get a sub 45 mean.
Feet: I want to try feet, and if I get into it, sub 1:15 by nats.
Clock: Sub 15 by nats, sub 12 by end of year. Current: Sub 24
Mega: Sub 1:45 by nats, sub 1:30 by end of year. Current: Sub 3:20
Pyra: (Qualified) Sub 9 by nats, sub 7 by end of the year. Current: sub 12.
Skewb: (Qualified, Main event) Sub 6 by nats, sub 4 by end of the year. Current: Sub 9-8
Square-1: Sub 35 by nats, sub 25 by end of the year. Current: around 1 min.
 

Hazel

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Alrighty :D
2x2: Eh maybe practice a bit, learn HD if I get into it
3x3: Get! Better! with! Roux! (assuming I switch fully from CFOP). Maybe sub-17?
4x4: Practice a bit. Maybe get closer to sub-1
5x5-7x7: Maybe do a few solves.
OH: Meh. Do a few solves maybe.
3BLD: Practice.
3x3x5 Fisher: If I'm still interested in this, maybe get to a sub-3:30 global average?
Changing my goals:
2x2: Learn HD and get fast with it!
3x3: Learn full CLS and switch to M-CELL
MBLD: I'm going to go big, increase my PB of 2 points to 10!
 

Dancing Jules

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This is hard for me. All of 2018 is three times as long as I've been cubing (started 2017-08-28).

2x2: be sub 10 (am sub15)
3x3: sub 25, maybe? At least sub30, (am sub40) learn PLL, learn some OLL (currently 3.6LLL)
4x4: learn Yau, be sub2 (currently sub 3:30, I have no idea what a good/realistic goal is)
5x5: buy one, solve it
6x6 and 7x7: maybe buy them, if yes, be fast enough to meet a comp time limit.
OH: solve it without breaking my fingers, as soon as that works, sub 2:00 (comp time limit)
feet: meet comp time limits, maybe participate at Mental Breakdown
blind: official success (maybe at Mental Breakdown)
Megaminx: sub 5:00 (my current and only Ao5 is 7:18)
Pyraminx: learn LBL (currently I force the 2-edges-flipped case), be sub 14 (currently sub20)
Clock: actually time a solve, meet comp time limits, participate at Mental Breakdown
Skewb: learn fingertricks, start on Sarah's Intermediate, be sub 20 (am sub26 or something)
Square-1: maybe buy one, solve it
FMC: maybe participate at Mental Breakdown, if yes, be better than Brandon Mikel (excluding his last comp)

Generally, a lot depends on whether I'll go to Mental Breakdown. So far it's the only comp I know that will be in reasonable distance. But of course it isn't your usual beginner-friendly nxn comp. Planning to go there might me motivation to practice feet, clock and blind.
 
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